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Ship Simulator 2008 (PC CD) | 
| From: Lighthouse Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
Buy New: £14.75
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 581
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 8717662270499
ASIN: B000P5TCV8
Release Date: July 12, 2007
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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A very good game if you like boats, ships. August 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this game last year, I saw it on the internet and the more i saw pictures and video's of it the more i wanted it. I got the game and completed most of the missions and then there was a update then i lost all of my progress which meant i needed to restart all over again. It is a fun game though just sailing in some of the worlds best boats. You can change the weather to what ever you want and change the time of day. Make it a nice calm summer's night with a sunset or make it a winters night with huge waves and rain. The graphics are very good in the game but i feel the sounds could improve. Online play is great very fun and i have spent many hours on it sailing and chatting away to people. I really like this game but feel that there is a few things missing to make it that 100% complete. Vstep that runs the game crashes often and my computer is fine with other games so i think they need to fix it. Overall the game is very good and fun.
 A BIG improvement. February 11, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The original Ship Simulator was great; it was unique had great graphics and was fun to play. Ship Sim 2008 is one of those very few games where the developers seem to have looked at the forums of the previous game, and took their lead from what people really wanted. As a result, apart from the obvious; more scenery more, ships and better graphics, there's also open ocean environments, BIG waves and storms, and the ability to sink ships. Like MS Flight Simulator, Ship Simulator is also used by professionals. While it is not quite at that level yet, it is very good.
 As Eric Morecambe used to say "RUBBISH!" January 15, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
This game is rubbish, its not worth a quid on e bay. I will be seeing if it is compatible with the operating system on my wheelie bin, coz thats where its going!
 Not so much a simulator January 11, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well it arrived, and I was disappointed to see that it isn't a simulator, its more an arcade type game. That said it is fun to play, and if your new to ship simulators, controlling the ships at first can be tricky. I updated my copy with both patches that you download, and now have multiplayer capability and also an editor to make missions.
I tried the online game, and it makes a difference to game play, with other "real" players, the downside is selecting a start point to join a session. I had five different players "land" on me within the first thirty minutes! Time flew past whilst I was on line, so it must have been good!
Its a shame that the game is let down by not having proper cockpits for the controls. Is it worth a buy? Well everyones taste is different, I brought it for a bit of fun, having never tried a ship simulator, and I can see it becoming addictive :)
 Disappointing January 6, 2008
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I fail to understand how this can be considered a simulator in the same way as, say, Microsoft Flight Simualtor is.
How would you feel if, every time you approached an airport in FS, the game stopped, showed a loading screen for a few seconds, then you found yourself with no throttle set, facing a random direction?
That in itself destroys any immersion one might othewise be able to glean from what is certainly a very pretty game, but there's more.
The "simulation" involves nothing more than setting throttle and setting heading. There are absolutely no other ships systems to manage. Not even windscreen wipers, not that you need them since the windscreen in even the smallest of vessels modeled here appeared to have a magical coating that prevents any rain or spray from ever getting on it!!
There's not even a realistic radar display to bring any value whatsoever to this interminably dull title. The only nod in that direction is a "show ships" overlay on a difficult to read paper chart.
Why not model the systems actually present on the ships in question?
Trim tabs on the power boats, even? How fundamental is that?
In fact, on that subject, the helm position is useless most of the time, making you far more likely to "cheat" and use the external views.
Ok, you expect that on the huge vessels, but when I'm out of trim, perhaps pre-plane, in my own boat, I stand up. Or raise the seat a tad. You can't do either in SS2008's little world.
The much vaunted mooring system is... well, it's rubbish, quite frankly. You click a button, click a mooring point on the boat and then click a mooring point on land, and a magic mooring line appears.
You have no option to shorten/lengthen each line for manouvering, as you might in the real world, and there's not even an attempt at any form of animation of the line being thrown and set.
Even dropping the anchor is as far from a simulation as you could possibly get. Hover over the icon, hit it, and the anchor magically appears, chain pointing straight down(!). No animation, no length indication, no "simulation" of an anchor at all.
Want to see what happens if you lob the anchor out of your power boat at 60 knots? This is, after all, a simulation, where such things can be tried in complete safety, right?
Wrong.
Trying to use any of the mooring systems at speed simply triggers a "slow to below 5 knots" error. Why? I don't get such warnings in my boat. I wanted to see what happens! Let me!
The weather modeling system is a nice feature, and again is very pretty, but why the 4m wave limit? Why not allow us to go absolutely barmy and have 30m waves if we so wish?
Ultimately, the total lack of immersion is what kills this title, but there's a multitude of contributary factors providing the proverbial nails.
Having said all that, SS2008 is FAR better than SS2006, the last version I played (and it is just a game), so let's hope Ship Simulator 2009 is better still, and starts to live up to the Simulator title.
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